US President Donald Trump defended the need for skilled foreign workers even as his administration continues to make it harder for companies to bring them in under existing visa programs.

Speaking to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump was questioned about whether his administration was sidelining the H-1B visa, a system long used by technology and manufacturing firms to hire highly skilled workers from abroad. Ingraham argued that curbing visas would help raise wages for American workers. Advertisement

“You also do have to bring in talent,” Trump countered. When Ingraham said the U.S. already had “plenty of talented people here,” Trump replied, “No.”

“You don’t have certain talents. And you have to, people have to learn. You can’t take people off, like an unemployment line, and say, ‘

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